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- Wednesday, 10 December, 2025
- Thessaloniki, Greece
- 28 June, 2026
Audio-Visual Materials
Terms of reference
Officers:
2024 – 2027:
Chair: Ferenc János Szabó, Institute for Musicology (HUN-REN RCH) and Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, Hungary
Vice-Chair: Kirstin Dougan Johnson (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Secretary: Vacant
Past officers:
2021-2024:
Zane Grosa, Latvia (chair) – Kirstin Dougan Johnson, U.S.A. (vice-chair) – Stefan Fong, Canada (secretary)
2017 – 2021:
Jonathan Manton, USA (chair) – Houman Behzadi, Canada (vice-chair) – Eric Mortensen, USA (secretary)
2011 – 2017:
Andrew Justice, USA (chair) – Inger Johanne Christiansen, Norway (vice-chair) – Hanneke Kuiper, Netherlands (secretary)
2008 – 2011:
Inger Johanne Christiansen, Norway (chair) – Andrew Justice, USA (vice-chair) – Mary Wedgewood, USA (secretary)
2005 – 2008:
Elizabeth Giuliani, France (chair) – Inger Johanne Christiansen, Norway (vice-chair) – Mary Wedgewood, USA (secretary)
2002 – 2005:
Antony Gordon, UK (chair) – Gunnell Jönsson, Sweden (vice-chair) – Elisabeth Giuliani, France (secretary)
1999 – 2002:
Antony Gordon, UK (chair) – Elizabeth Giuliani, France (vice-chair) – Avo Kartul, Estonia (secretary)
Activities
Materials presented in the sessions
- Latvia’s historical sound recordings collection – a window to the music of another eraZane Grosa (National Library of Latvia, Riga)
- Sound recordings of folk music at the Institute of Musicology, Slovak Academy of Sciences: contents and contexts of the collectionHana Urbancová (Institute of Musicology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava)
- Sound archives at the web portal „Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek“. About the work of the department Media/Sound at the Saxon State and University Library, DresdenSophie Rölle (Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden)
- Can I listen to that online? Building AV access platformsJonathan Manton (Yale University, New Haven, CT)
- A New Archival Initiative for Electro-acoustic MusicKent Underwood and Tae Hong Park (New York University)
- Disseminate Spanish cultural heritage: Sound and music papersTeresa Delgado Sánchez and Maria Jesus Lopez Lorenzo (Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid)
- Will you remember me? A scientific approach to the preservation of the research material of a music anthropologist in Emilia-Romagna in the 1970s and 1980sFederica Bressan (Università degli studi di Padova)
- On the e-dissemination of traditional Greek musical heritage (Database)Sofia E. Tsopani, Dimitrios A. Adamos, and Aristeidis Bazmadelis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
- On the e-dissemination of traditional Greek musical heritage (Presentation)Sofia E. Tsopani, Dimitrios A. Adamos, and Aristeidis Bazmadelis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
- Music has its destiny: On collecting audio in a digital ageJeremy A. Smith
- A new virtual library for libretti. Digitizing and presenting the libretti of the Her Collection at the Bavarian State LibraryFranz Jürgen Götz (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München)
- Ether today, gone tomorrow: Issues in digital audio archivingJudy Tsou and John Vallier (University of Washington, Seattle, WA)
- The preservation of archival sound recordingsAntony Gordon
- Digital preservation issues – speaker notesAntony Gordon
- Digital preservation issuesAntony Gordon
- The preservation task of a sound archivePeter Copeland, read by Antony Gordon